No idea if anyone will read this ... all the bored regulars from a few years ago seem to have gone the way of the Oozlum bird.

After the demise of the Marks & Spencer Deli Section in selected Sokos department stores earlier this year, I was wondering where I'd get my emergency teabags and biccies.
Fear not, the S- chain has now started to stock some Tesco products...

In Pori S-market on Isolinnankatu I bagged lime curd, raspberry jam, shortbread fingers, cheese & bunion crisps. All were very reasonably priced & welcome additions.
They had English breakfast tea, but I have a cupboard-full at the moment and S&V crisps - next time.

There were a couple of jars of cook-in sauces, but I never buy them... didn't see the chutney, and some curry powders / spice mixes would also be a handy.

The cheeses were less impressive, teeny tiny 150g blocks of Red Leicester and smoked cheddar. In the UK that would surely be a 250g block and half the price. At €23/kg they are taking the piss, when the other cheddar they sell is €18/kg and in Lidl cheddar (& red Leicester when available) is closer to €10/kg.

Fresh orange juice was puzzling - when there are at least 10 other brands available and it must cost a bomb to transport something with such a low €/kg all the way across Europe.

Tesco tea & crisps in S-Market / Prisma

sinikala wrote:In the UK that would surely be a 250g block and half the price. At €23/kg they are taking the piss, when the other cheddar they sell is €18/kg and in Lidl cheddar (& red Leicester when available) is closer to €10/kg.

Quite a nice selection of gluten-free and milk-free products (gluten-free fish fingers, milk-free ice cream, gluten- & milk-free tikka masala sauce). But probably not things I would normally buy now that my allergy-ridden offspring has flown the nest. But good to see a better selection and not so expensive either.

Quite a nice selection of gluten-free and milk-free products (gluten-free fish fingers, milk-free ice cream, gluten- & milk-free tikka masala sauce). But probably not things I would normally buy now that my allergy-ridden offspring has flown the nest. But good to see a better selection and not so expensive either.

That link wouldn't work for me... maybe this works better https://www.foodie.fi/products/search/tesco
Yep there's a lot of special diet stuff we wouldn"t buy either, but peppered with enough rregular products to keep us interested ...
if they ever introduce these I will be over the moon

The only things I am really interested in are perishables so unlikely to be distributed in Finland. Eg: a Melton Mowbray pp, authentic extra-mature West Country Farmhouse Cheddar, Cox's Orange Pippins, Bramleys, Cumberland sausages, blackberries, crumpets...